Watching this in light of the recent NIH funding cuts to research, this movie revealed yet another extreme way in which government and science are intertwined: through war. This movie did an amazing job at portraying Oppenheimer’s morality crisis, as he had to debate continuing his life’s work at the expense of feeling responsible for the death of entire cities. Because his personality was not the “strongest” (or perhaps he was just unsure about the play-out of events after designing the…
